Punjab Kings won by 5 runs
PBKS – 125/7 (20)
SRH – 120/7 (20)
Player of the Match – Jason Holder
Relief in the Punjab camp. Another game that’s gone down to the wire, kind of, and this time they have ended on the right side of it. Hyderabad only have themselves to blame really. 126 wasn’t the biggest of targets, even if you factor in the ultra-slowness of the pitch, but they just had no impetus in the run chase until Holder’s arrival. Warner and Williamson fell to Shami’s excellent new-ball burst and the Punjab boys then kept squeezing the run flow. Saha, Pandey and Jadhav did get starts but none of them looked like taking the game away from the opposition. It actually seemed like a comfortable win for Punjab before Holder started belting sixes for fun, taking the game deep but in the end, he lacked support. If only someone else had also shown more intent. Not to take anything away from KL Rahul’s boys, they were exceptional with the ball. This is the lowest score successfully defended in the IPL at Sharjah.
Lowest targets successfully defended by PBKS (IPL)
120 vs MI Durban 2009
126 vs SRH Sharjah 2021*
127 vs SRH Dubai 2020
133 vs KKR Abu Dhabi 2014
Lowest targets failed to chase down by SRH (IPL)
126 vs PBKS Sharjah 2021 *
127 vs PBKS Dubai 2020
137 vs MI Hyderabad 2019
PBKS 125-7 (20 Ovs)
Batting
Markram 27(32)
Rahul(c)(wk) 21(21)
Bowling
Holder 3/19
Rashid Khan 1/17
SRH 120-7 (20 Ovs)
Batting
Jason Holder 47(29)
Wriddhiman Saha(wk) 31(37)
Bowling
Ravi Bishnoi 3/24
Mohammed Shami 2/14
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